While Su Yu was getting ready for his next phase of cultivation.1

Heart Cultivating Pavilion.0

Inside Zhou Mingren's residence.0

Liu Hong was sweating profusely as he explained, "Faculty Head, it was my fault. I reported the price of 82,000 merit points to Senior Brother Zhou. In truth, the price is only 80,000 merit points. I took some of the money for myself." 1

Acting like he was unable to withstand the pressure of being stared at by Zhou Mingren, Liu Hong decided to “come clean”.0

"80,000 merit points..."0

Zhou Mingren reached his own conclusion. That was most likely the correct figure. Su Yu might not be fully trusted either. The issue here was that Zhou Pingsheng had reported a price of 100,000 merit points to them.0

Zhou Mingren sighed inwardly. He came to the conclusion that his beloved student had swallowed 18,000 merit points all by himself.0

How audacious.0

How greedy.0

That was a lot of money. What gave Zhou Pingsheng so much courage?0

One ought to know that even a Cloudbreach cultivator would probably receive only around 1,000 merit points per year as salary without any additional income. Meanwhile, Zhou Pingsheng alone had swallowed over 10,000 merit points from a single transaction. If the other elders learned of this, things would get very troublesome.0

Not letting any of his thoughts show, Zhou Mingren indifferently said, "It is understandable that you try to take care of your own benefits when carrying out a task for the faction. 2,000 merit points is actually a decent amount of money. I can forgive you for that. But I need to know if the data is real." 0

Liu Hong was still sweating profusely, "Faculty Head, I really have no idea. Back then, Senior Brother Zhou was present for everything. He is also much more knowledgeable than me. Furthermore, even Xia Xinyi from the Xia Family was present that day. Since Xia Xinyi had also tried to purchase the data, he had clearly believed that the data was real as well."  0

Xia Xinyi was Marquis Xia's son and Xia Chan's father. He was also a ninth-stage...0